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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any word where Madlax will be playing if not in the HOCO league in the spring?[/quote]

Not a Madlax parent, but my understanding is that they will have scrimmages and "play days". Who is going to play I have no idea ... [/quote]

Let's clear up a few things. The commissioner of the HOCO league emailed the club owners in the recent weeks a few times. In the first notice, the HOCO commissioner noted this US Lacrosse rule for 2016 in regards to grade based teams:

[i]US Lacrosse has, for 2016, in "Age & Eligibility guidelines" the following:
"Grade-based competition: For leagues or associations in which some or all teams choose to organize by grade, those should be single-grade teams and should play in the age division determined by the oldest player on their roster'[/i]

That means if a club like Madlax or Crabs trots out kids who are 15 year old 8th graders, they can't play in this 8th grade league. It also appears that clubs like Madlax have known for some time they were screwed out of being able to enter grade based teams in the HOCO league because of the holdback endemic. This has been a HOCO commissioner notice on the website from earlier this year:

CONFERENCE APPLICATION & ROSTERS
[i]
Rosters are to be submitted on the official roster form by January 15th. This includes the Howard County Lacrosse Program who organizes select/travel teams and places these teams in the Conference.

Each player's full name, date of birth, school, grade, parent’s cell number and jersey number must appear on this form. Incomplete rosters will not be accepted. Rosters must be emailed to the Conference Commissioner at dethompson@howardcountymd.gov [/i]

So, yes, based on the way club lacrosse youth teams are administered around the DMV with so many held back kids for lacrosse recruiting reasons the only lacrosse these 8th graders will be playing this spring will be informal play dates with other clubs like them.

Now here is where it gets worse...Team 91 owners in LI are in a struggle now to apply the USL 2016 grade based team guidelines to summer tournaments. If that is a success Madlax and Crabs won't be able to enter most summer tournaments except for the ones Cabell or Ryan run themselves. Suck on that with your supper.[/quote]

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